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“Duguid is part anthropologist, part brilliant cook, and her recipes simply work in American kitchens. Many dishes in Burma will seem entirely fresh to palates already familiar with Thai or Vietnamese food. . . . Duguid has mastered the arc of flavor development. She writes with deep, local, friendly authority.” —Cooking Light “Simple, distinctive home cooking.” —Food & Wine “Duguid’s well-written recipes . . . will make readers yearn to get chopping, sizzling, and tasting.” —Sacramento Bee “This stunning book is part cookbook, part culinary anthropology, and, throughout, a feast for the eyes." —Celebrated Living “A treasury of Burma’s cuisine . . . . Duguid’s portrait of Burma’s rich food heritage contains vivid glimpses of the people who create it along with cultural insight and a dash of travel advice.” — Publishers Weekly , starred review ( Burma is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Cookbooks for Fall) “Satisfy your taste for adventure with Naomi Duguid’s Burma: Rivers of Flavor . Part cookbook, part travelogue, Duguid introduces the salads, stews and meats of Burma and explores the culinary crossroads between China, India, and Southeast Asia.” —Greenwich Time Informationen zum Autor Naomi Duguid is a writer, photographer, traveler, and home cook. Her recent cookbook Taste of Persia is the winner of a James Beard Award, an IACP Cookbook Award, and a Taste Canada Award. Her book Burma: Rivers of Flavor is also an IACP Cookbook Award and Taste Canada Award winner. Her six previous award-winning titles, co-authored with Jeffrey Alford, include two now-classic cookbooks that won the James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year: Flatbreads & Flavors: A Baker’s Atlas and Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia. Naomi leads small-group food-immersive trips to the Republic of Georgia and elsewhere. She is a Trustee of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, and is a frequent guest speaker and presenter at food conferences, particularly those focused on grains. She lives in Toronto. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @naomiduguid. Klappentext With simple recipes for the regional cuisines of Burma, this book features photographs throughout - of the finished dishes, of people, of a hauntingly beautiful land - as well as travel tips and history and stories of a land that inspired Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, and George Orwell. Zusammenfassung Located at the crossroads between China, India, and the nations of Southeast Asia, Burma has long been a land that absorbed outside influences into its everyday life, from the Buddhist religion to foodstuffs like the potato. This title features 125 recipes that are combined with tales from the author's many trips to this little-known land....
